Gigantomachy The conflict among the
giants (offspring of Gaia) and the Olympian
gods. Classical assets are Apollodorus’s
Library (1.6.1) and Diodorus Siculus’s Library
of History (five.71.2–6). The defeat of the Titans
by way of the Olympians became observed by the warfare with
a race of giants descended from Gaia (Earth).
Gaia sent the giants to wreck the Olympians
in retribution for his or her imprisonment of her
offspring the Titans. The giants challenged
the Olympian gods, hurling rocks and flaming
bushes on the heavens. According to Ovid, the
giants had been slain by using the thunderbolts of Zeus,
but different sources recommend extra protracted
engagement with giants. An oracle prophesied
that the giants were undefeatable without the
useful resource of
